The National Park Service bans swimming in Rock Creek due to “high levels of bacteria.”
  • Cheems@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 hour ago

    I don’t see the problem, he’s been swimming in that creek his entire life and he’s fine. /s

    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      George Carlin has a bit about swimming in polluted water as a child and his immune system being tempered in raw shit. I wonder if this nut job did not understand that was a joke?

      • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        39 minutes ago

        Conservatives don’t understand humor. George Carlin fucking HATED conservatives and anti-abortion people. He also supported the death penalty (as a joke) ONLY for the upper crust and not for common criminals or people with poor financial background. His logic was quite sound… poor criminal gangsters who live in high crime neighborhoods face death on a regular basis (if 90s gangsta rap taught me anything, it is that the main thing they are concerned about is living to see their next birthday) and ultimately accept that they might face a violent early death.

        The wealthy? Fuck no. they are spoiled rotten. They commit crimes with a stroke of a pen that ruin the lives of thousands at a time and enrich themselves. Even if they are caught, they will usually just pay a fine or even if they get a jail sentence, it will be very light and in a comfortable penitentiary, and they can go right back to their old jobs right after (look up the story of Nick Mead, a rogue trader who destroyed the oldest merchant bank in England in the late 90s and was sentenced to 4 years (of which he only served 2 or 3) for his fraud, and went on to be a sports team manager and speaker and is quite a comfortably wealthy person.

        Meanwhile shoplift a big enough item and you can serve a multi-decade sentence…

        So George’s logic that sentencing wealthy assholes to death for their white collar crimes while giving common murderers lesser life sentences (murder is still bad and the type of person who murders another is not someone you want walking around, generally speaking) makes sense. If the wealthy had to deal with watching their fellow fraudsters being executed on the regular, or at least receiving extremely long and harsh sentences, then we will see a reduction in those crimes. Most low-level crime is done impulsively while most high-level crime is planned heavily, so that makes sense.

      • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        That Carlin clip has been circulated in various alternative medicine quackery communities for a long time, I doubt RFK Jr. has any media literacy. The similar notion has somewhat entered in mainstream discourse with the concept of “immunity debt”.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      38 minutes ago

      Master Splinter and the Turtles are mutants with super mutant immune systems AND other systems that give them a neutral smell no matter what. We mere mortals cannot compare to the glory of TMNT.

  • renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    45·
    16 hours ago

    just looked it up. the place he went to was literally 2 miles from the white house, in the middle of a fucking 6 million metropolis. honestly, regardless of what the national park said, who chooses a place like that for a swim and expects it not to be polluted?

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      203·
      14 hours ago

      Me to be honest. Where, if not in your capital, would you be able to enforce environmental protection of your streams?

      Granted our biggest cities are smaller than those of most other countries, but in Zürich, Bern and Basel you see people bathing in the Limmat, Aare and Rhine respectively all the time.

      • epicstove@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        11 hours ago

        Bro, Switzerland has gotta be a pretty notable exception.

        I have literally never seen more beautiful and clean waters in my life than the ones I saw while visiting Switzerland.

          • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            6·
            11 hours ago

            He only created it to block Congress from passing something more effective.

            He certainly didn’t do it out of concern for the environment.

      • klemptor@startrek.websiteEnglish
        5·
        12 hours ago

        It’s sewage infrastructure from the 1800s that needs to be repaired - apparently the pipe cracked. I don’t know why it hasn’t been fixed yet, that’s wild.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        I still check if there have been any recent discharges before swimming and I live by the sea where there is a lot more water to dilute it. Must be a lot more concentrated in a river.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    1351·
    21 hours ago

    When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know… to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighbourhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!

    Love Carlin, but this bit didn’t exactly age well. lol